droplet
‘smallest quantity of a liquid; a tiny drop’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
drop ‘a small, spherical mass of liquid’+ O.F. -elet (double-diminutive) < Lat. ellus + F. -et,-ette < O.F. –et < Vulgar Lat. -ittum/-itta < uht < -et < Tamil iṭṭu